President Donald Trump is launching a brand new government-run web site that he says will let People purchase medicines at decrease costs. The brand new web site, referred to as TrumpRx, is anticipated to launch in 2026 and can direct shoppers to reductions on drugmakers’ on-line shops, together with Pfizer’s, as reported earlier by The New York Occasions and NPR.
The Tuesday announcement comes as a part of a deal that grants Pfizer a three-year reprieve from tariffs in alternate for investing in US-based manufacturing, based on the firm’s press launch. Pfizer additionally agreed to decrease costs on the “majority” of the first care medicine bought by state Medicaid packages, which it says might end in a mean financial savings of fifty p.c.
Particulars concerning the TrumpRx.gov website are nonetheless slim, however senior officers instructed NPR that it will lead customers to pharmaceutical firms’ web sites to position orders, and that solely sufferers not utilizing medical insurance would be capable of make the most of the reductions. The New York Occasions reviews that officers additionally mentioned Trump has reached comparable agreements with different drugmakers, with out specifying which of them.